The Visionary Journalist in Paris and Brussels
The Visionary Journalist in Paris and Brussels
► Brave Soldiers
► Replaced Kidlat Club
► Its members pledged to excel in intellectual and physical prowess in
order to win the admiration of the foreigners particularly the
Spaniards.
► Rizal taught them Judo – an Asian art that he learned while he was in
Japan.
RLDM SOCIETY
► The teaching of the Spanish missionaries that heaven is for the poor.
► Too much government restriction and red tape in the approval of
permit.
► Encouragement an propagation of gambling.
► Ownership of the big estates by the friars.
► Example set by the Spaniards in disdaining manual labor.
► Deprivation of human dignity
Attributable to Filipinos
► Feeling of inferiority
► Placing hopes on miracles
► Lack of spirit to pursue lofty
purposes
► Lack of national sentiment
Filipinas Dentro de Cien
Años
► The Philippines, A Century Hence
► An essay to forecast the future of the country in a hundred
years.
► Came out as a series of four articles in La Solidaridad
► Analysis of the causes of the miseries of the people
► Implementation of military policies
► The country was depopulated
► Poverty was widespread
► Deterioration and disappearance of Filipino indigenous
culture
► The people lost confidence in the past, lost of faith in the
present, and lost of hope in the future.
► The passivity and submissiveness to the Spanish
colonizers
► The people had resigned themselves to their fate
AMERICA
► To My Muse
► A poem written by Rizal in 1890 as a result of his
disenchantment over the lukewarm attitude of the
Filipino expatriates working for the reforms in Spain.
► This poem expresses his bitterness over the land
troubles in Calamba.
Rizal and Suzanne
Jacoby